On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 13:32:10 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > Here's a list of packages that will FTBFS soon if dh-python will not be > added to Build-Depends (it's time to drop dh-python from python3's > Depends and old version of dh_python2 from python package).
Is there a Lintian tag for this? That's sometimes a relatively efficient way to get packages fixed. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command.html is a large part of it (that tag seems to be 99% dh-python already). https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon.html suggests that data/debhelper/dh_addons-manual needs changing from python2||python:any | python-all:any | python-dev:any | python-all-dev:any python3||python3:any | python3-all:any | python3-dev:any | python3-all-dev:any to maybe something like python2||dh-python, python:any | python-all:any | python-dev:any | python-all-dev:any python3||dh-python, python3:any | python3-all:any | python3-dev:any | python3-all-dev:any (assuming multiple dependencies work in that context). > The plan is to report bugs first and follow up with changes in -defaults > packages in April or May. It might help to announce the intention to do a MBF on -devel now, in the hope that some packages will get fixed before the bug-filing starts? smcv